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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.


Octavia E. Butler

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SANDRA K. COOK Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but...
DAVID SUZUKI How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed...
ANN EDWARDS CANNON When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warmi...
JIM SULLIVAN You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.
JEFFREY FRY He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our...
DAVID HACKWORTH Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major...
MOON BLOODGOOD I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.
JUDI DENCH There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with ...
MOBY I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Co...
JILL SCOTT It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then...
EDNA FERBER It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
SIVAMANI Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's ha...
CHRIS ISAAK It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND We read to know we're not alone.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Love never dies.
JAMES PATTERSON In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-underst...
DANIEL PAULY Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA If we are going to find sustainable ways of dealing with global warming, we have to base it on love ...
DEAN ORNISH It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
LORETTA SWIT I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether...
TOM COURTENAY Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies somethin...
JOHN HOLDREN A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
BERKELEY BREATHED It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core ...
AL SECKEL You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.
ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
KAREN JOY FOWLER It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You hav...
EVAN SPIEGEL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want ...
MATT HAIG It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a s...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habit...
MORRISSEY The back, it's frustrating. It's hard to figure out. You go to bed feeling good, and you wak...
MARCO SCUTARO The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too m...
BRETT HOEBEL It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's ...
JEREMY GRANTHAM Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't th...
DAVID BAILEY You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It ...
DON CHEADLE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
ROBERT KURSON Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
MICHELLE RICHARDSON It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be ser...
BJORN LOMBORG The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into...
AL GORE It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when flu...
NATE LOWMAN Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't...
NICO DEAN FULGENZI That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN By giving yourself less time, you'll work faster, concentrate more intensely, and perform at peak ef...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Often our biggest distractions are not external, but come from within. Get out of your own way!
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Some people spend a lifetime chasing the wrong goals. They work with extreme focus - but it doesn't ...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Your ability to sustain focus depends on how enjoyable and productive it is.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Take power breaks every hour. Schedule tougher tasks for the time when you are most productive.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Find your true passion. Tap into the endless inspiration & energy it provides. Your focus will o...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Focus can become an obsession... But your ability to sustain the drive to focus will depend upon how...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.
LORII MYERS

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Must
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E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
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E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
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E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER